Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Based on my own experience in both large and small companies, I agree it can be done, with the essential principles outlined in a new book, “ Winning Now, Winning Later ,” by David M. In my experience, even in startups, longer-term strategy often gets pushed off the agenda due to current challenges. Don’t make growth a big-bang event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

In his classic book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. Stable and friendly work environment.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What are the biggest areas of technical risk? What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? What do we need to do to make sure we can survive technical due diligence by investors and partners? What specific technical innovations might make sense? How can we address this risk?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

A closer analysis often indicates the cause to be a lack of diligence in handling common business finances. I found a good summary of the most common mistakes in a recent book by Kelly Clifford, “ Profit Rocket ,” written primarily to help you on the other side of the equation – skyrocket your profits. In startups, cash is king.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Former employees describe Friday catered lunches where costs could run over $100 per person, and Royan was known internally for a “book ordering problem” — a former employee said that “unbelievable amounts of books” would be delivered each week to the office by Amazon to maintain the firm’s extensive library. What a boring mess.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2012

A closer analysis often indicates the cause to be a lack of diligence in handling common business finances. I found a good summary of the most common mistakes in a new book by Kelly Clifford, “ Profit Rocket ,” written primarily to help you on the other side of the equation – skyrocket your profits. In startups, cash is king.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Chip Bell and Ron Zemke, who are experts in this area, provide some of the best specific insights I’ve seen, in the classic book “ Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service.” It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Thus I was pleased to see this subject, and related strategy decisions, covered well in a recent book, “ Brand Vision ,” by Jim Everhart. If you think it’s hard to get the technical systems to talk to each other, I have found that it’s even harder to bridge the gulf between the various professionals who interpret them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

I found these challenges and opportunities outlined well in a classic book, “ Out-Innovate ,” by Alexandre Lazarow. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2020

For example, if your idea is so new and different that it implies real social or technological change is necessary before widespread acceptance, investors will define your market as nascent or unproven, and be very reluctant to fund you, no matter how convincing your projections may be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For example, even though Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook as an innovative product, most experts believe it was successful due to his relationship with Peter Thiel and other top VCs that he convinced to invest early. Using metrics to measure results and commitments. Maintaining an insatiable curiosity about change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Chip Bell and Ron Zemke, who are experts in this area, provide some of the best specific insights I’ve seen, in the classic book “ Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service.” It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 23, 2015

A company''s Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a beloved metric slavishly tracked and reported by product marketing and customer support executives of both established and nascent enterprises. The concept was first introduced by Fred Reichheld in a 2003 Harvard Business Review article entitled "One Number You Need to Grow.".

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. Recently, I saw some help in that regard in a new book, “ Think Like Amazon ,” by John Rossman, a former top executive at Amazon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In a new book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology. Thus I was pleased to see the evidence confirming that perspective in a new book, “ The Amazon Management System ,” by Ram Charan and Julia Yang. Incorporate AI-powered data and metrics systems.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The video industry will be disrupted just as books, newspapers and music before it. They compete on features, price and execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

I found these challenges and opportunities outlined well in a new book, “ Out-Innovate ,” by Alexandre Lazarow. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

ML: Porter is a really simple consumer app, a one-stop shop for booking your recurring in-home services. The nuts and bolts of our tech company is that CMS in the middle, the connection engine. When I went full-time, I did not have the full-time support on the tech side I wanted. So, I have no tech support right now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

A while back, I spotted a new book for change management leaders in large organization, and I realized that many of the issues they face are the same as ones faced in every growing startup. Words alone, like “improved efficiency”, “paradigm shift,” and “breakthrough technology” won’t convince people to follow you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

A classic article in the Harvard Business Review “ The Truth About Customer Experience ” defines it as your customer’s end-to-end journey with you, not just the key touchpoints or critical moments when customers interact with your organization. I like the insights outlined in a more recent book “ Summit ,” by F.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2013

Recently I spotted a new book for change management leaders in large organization, and I realized that many of the issues they face are the same as ones faced in every growing startup. Phil Buckley, in his new book “ Change With Confidence ,” provides practical answer to fifty of the biggest questions that keep change leaders up at night.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

He calls this competing with “non consumption” It was the most profound business strategy book I had read and greatly influenced how I thought about company building and certainly how I think about investing. The team has stated it and has built metrics around key goals for future success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

Every country has scores of good business schools, there are thousands of books on the subject, and at the basic level, the disciplines to build all business are essentially the same, no matter what the domain. In today’s world, the market evolves even faster than the technology. Manage the business with metrics and goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2019

I was happy to see some good guidance on this subject in a new book, “ Outsizing: Strategies to Grow Your Business, Profits, and Potential, ” by Steve Coughran, who is a thought leader and consultant in this area. Highlight your competitive value, not your technology. Seek out and capitalize on emerging opportunities.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Under the heading, “The Book On Bezos,” the callout lists ten actionable and impactful nuggets of startup advice. I review these tenets with my entrepreneurial students at UC Santa Barbara at the beginning of each quarter to reinforce many of the key topics we will cover in the following weeks. Don’t Chase The Quick Buck.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Chip Bell and Ron Zemke, who are experts in this area, provide some of the best specific insights I’ve seen, in their book “ Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service.” It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I’ll put my money on one of the originals in the social media marketing game, my friend Lon Safko, who just published his Second Edition of the bestselling book, “ The Social Media Bible.” Implement metrics and analytics. You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Determine the proper measurement tools and set up the measurement process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

Of course, nobody really knows all of what tomorrow will bring, in terms of globalization, digital technology, or demographic shifts, but most experts agree that certain elements are already obvious, and things must be done today to get your business ready in time. Data technology facilitates more fact-based decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

What neither group seems to fully comprehend is that retail needs to fundamentally change to succeed, far beyond the addition of an online component, to meet the experience expectations of today’s generation, an oversupplied global marketplace, and technology for instant pricing and distribution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. Kristin Zhivago, in her book “ Roadmap to Revenue ,” makes the point that the selling system is broken, since sellers no longer sell the way customers are buying.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. Kristin Zhivago, in her classic book “ Roadmap to Revenue ,” makes the point that the selling system is broken, since sellers no longer sell the way customers are buying.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

“We are in a different age now where technology is so important and I wanted to be connected with people along the way.” From left to right: Mike Coffey (DeveloperTown), Manpreet Singh (Seva Call), Jonathon Perrelli (Fortify.vc), Frank Gruber (Tech Cocktail). vc , Liam Martin with Staff. DeveloperTown in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2017

I like the points made in the classic book, “ You Can Win ,” by Shiv Khera. Some things need to be done whether we like them or not; for example, daily cash-flow analysis and business metrics. Smart business executives learn to use new technology software to give them new insights and more free time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

If you are already running a business in this category, or thinking about one, I recommend a new book, “ The Profitable Professional ,” by Kelly Clifford. Use your knowledge of evolving needs and technology to add more value than competitors, and introduce clients to each other to build partnerships. Don’t forget seminars and events.

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